president barack obama going to las vegas today to push for immigration reform. the president was planning to introduce a plan of his own but a bipartisan group of 8 senators that came out with a proposal yesterday. the president is getting behind it. that plan would beef up border security and provide a path for citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. >>> the u.s. economy is still described as shaky but don't tell that to investors who are driven large u.s. stock indexes to all-time highs especially this month. jill schlesinger, editor at large for cbsmoneywatch.com is here to tell us why the stock market is rising so steady. good. >> reporter: good morning. >> we are up 5% and still in the month of january? that's unreal. why? >> reporter: i hate to be asking questions why, but let's start with three factors outside of the u.s. for the first time in over two years we're not talking about europe because they are no longer in crisis mode. next, you know, we saw a big chinese bubble in property and it burst and economists thought that the country would ente